PX4 Autopilot up to 1.14 Breach Return Point buffer overflow

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A vulnerability was found in PX4 Autopilot up to 1.14. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Breach Return Point. Such manipulation leads to Remote Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-30799. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in PX4 Autopilot up to 1.14 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Breach Return Point. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue in PX4 Autopilot v1.14 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service via the Breach Return Point function.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-30799 since 03/27/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/13/2025).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• PX4

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• Autopilot

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14

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